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Arts

  • Johnny Cash pictured in 1987.

    Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

  • Taylor Swift against black background with eyes close holding her head backwards.

    ‘Like eating too much chocolate’
    Guardian readers on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

    ‘Bland’ or ‘absolutely breathtaking’? Our readers are divided over Swift’s epically long, richly detailed new album
  • Jon Stewart on the media’s coverage of Trump’s criminal trial: “If the media tries to make us feel like the most mundane bullshit is earth-shattering, we won’t believe you when it’s really interesting.”

    Jon Stewart blasts media coverage of Trump trial: ‘Spectacle of the most banal of details’

    Late-night hosts talk about the media coverage of Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial after first day of arguments

Talking points

  • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

    Soiled nappies and karate
    AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

  • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

    ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’
    Inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

  • A view of awards on display

    PEN America cancels 2024 awards after authors drop out over Gaza

  • Ciivil rights march in DC in 1963.

    The Black Tax
    Why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long?

People

  • Anne Hathaway.

    Anne Hathaway says she had to kiss 10 men during ‘gross’ chemistry audition

  • Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren

    Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club

    • Jerry Seinfeld.

      Jerry Seinfeld says the movie business is over: ‘No longer the cultural pinnacle’

    • Celine Dion performing in 2016.

      ‘Nothing is going to stop me’: Celine Dion details life with stiff person syndrome

    • ‘An exhale’ … (L-R) Mathieu Ball, Robin Wattie and Tasy Hudson of Big Brave.

      Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson: ‘We’re sick as a species’

The big picture

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk: the 60th Venice Biennale – in pictures

    From the thrice-daily Swan Lake to a tragedy in an asbestos factory, Guardian photographer David Levene went behind the scenes at the ‘Art Olympics’

Reviews

  • Bill Skarsgård in Boy Kills World

    Film
    Boy Kills World – ripped Bill Skarsgård shows he’s got brutal action chops

  • ‘Bob always talks’ … Robert Durst in The Jinx – Part Two

    Television & radio
    The Jinx: Part Two – more bombshells from Robert Durst, the serial killer who just won’t shut up

    • Andrew Scott

      1984 by George Orwell audiobook
      A starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

    • Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

      Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
      Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

    • Efficiency and wit … Taylor Swift.

      Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department
      Fame, fans and former flames in the line of fire

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Pictures & video

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    Venice Biennale 2024
    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked German

    From the thrice-daily Swan Lake to a tragedy in an asbestos factory, Guardian photographer David Levene went behind the scenes at the ‘Art Olympics’
  • Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Winner, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • My best shot
    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra

  • All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

  • ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

  • Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards – in pictures

  • The Guardian picture essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

  • In pictures
    Exploring why we photograph animals

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